Participation in a Hospital Incentive Program for Follow-up Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Austin S Kilaru; Jeanmarie Perrone; David Kelley; Sari Siegel; Su Fen Lubitz; Nandita Mitra; Zachary F Meisel

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.18511

Participation in a Hospital Incentive Program for Follow-up Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jan 3;3(1):e1918511. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.18511.

Authors

Austin S Kilaru^{1

2

3

4}, Jeanmarie Perrone³, David Kelley⁵, Sari Siegel⁶, Su Fen Lubitz³, Nandita Mitra⁷, Zachary F Meisel^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ National Clinician Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
² Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁴ Penn Injury Science Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
⁵ Office of Medical Assistance Programs, Department of Human Services, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.
⁶ The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg.
⁷ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines hospital participation in an incentive program that aims to improve the rate of opioid use disorder follow-up treatment among Medicaid recipients in Pennsylvania.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Critical Pathways / organization & administration*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Drug Overdose / prevention & control
Hospitals / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Opioid-Related Disorders / therapy*
Pennsylvania
Quality Improvement / economics
Quality Improvement / organization & administration

Grants and funding

P50 MH113840/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States